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Author Archives: The Chronicler
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It had been a question for me for a long time. Since 1883 cookie has been named a “Jewish cookie”. Thought it a strange name as it resembles a ‘sand-cookie’ or a thin-shortbread cookie. Most interesting to me is that the cookie originated in the city where I live. Now there is a new tin …
Matching Purse and Shoes
if you get my meaning!
A Bridge too Similar
My super-star niece L has a friend who knows all about bridges. So she asked him to comment on the fact that I did not know the location of the bridges on the Euro bills…. His Answer: When they designed the Euro Bills, they were careful to use drawings of “fictional” bridges so that none …
Euro Bills
Self explanatory. The missing information is exactly where the bridges are located.
no/yes or no/no
On every mailbox is one or the other of the above stickers; the mailbox owner may choose. The first one is, don’t leave marketing mail if it is not addressed to this house number. but you may leave the free local newspaper. The second is no marketing mail and no free newspapers. I have the …
Elections- National
17 March is election day for positions in the “Federal” Government. 150 seats make up this initial body of governance. A voter chooses their candidate from one of a whopping 34 parties. The first picture is the overview of the list of candidates and the parties. Picture 2: Starting at the left-hand-side of the page …
The Annoying Busker
Granted, there should be more sympathy oozing from this post but the humor of it squashed that reaction. In the fall, for a few weeks, at unscheduled times, a 10 year old boy stationed himself on the same street corner with his recorder*. It is easy instrument to learn, but apparently, not for him. He …
Enough Already?
Still working to get-a-handle on the flour types. Ordered directly from a mill that grinds the grain on course stones. The order: French flour, German flour, flour mix for Abdijbread, and coarse flour for bread. If that wasn’t enough, from another mill: 3 grinds of flour, including spelt and from the market Italian flour. In …
Foelie
This is a ‘who knew’! The nutmeg seed is a known spice to me, often grating it for extra flavor in all sorts of recipes. One day,’foelie’ jumped off the shelf. This spice is wonderfully soft in flavor-delicious in soup. Foelie is the membrane that surrounds the nutmeg seed, it is removed, dried and sold …